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[spinny2559]

A short while ago I ran the cleaner and also some custom settings on it, and accidenally deleted some important files. now, the folders are there, but all the contents of them have been deleted. they are not in the recycling bin, and i did a system restore which did not get them back, any way I can get them back?

thanks so much, this is literally thousands of hours of work that I have lost.

[gunner]

Go here and download restoration:http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html If you haven't written over them, they are still there. Good luck.

[JoeBailey]

Thought the whole point of CC is that they can't be restored once deleted..? Is that not true?

[Glenn]

CCleaner deletes files but doe not erase/wipe/shred/overwrite them.

See http://forum.CCleane...?showtopic=2575

[JoeBailey]

Glenn, on Nov 5 2005, 10:33 PM, said:

CCleaner deletes files but doe not erase/wipe/shred/overwrite them.

See http://forum.CCleane...?showtopic=2575

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Ahh, thanks Glenn. I didn't realise this programme could do what it did without actually deleting stuff. If it's making extra space.... where does it go? No, don't answer that, it will only confuse me.

I don't really understand what the point is of cleaning like it does but not deleting it..? Other than to recover which may happen occasionally but most of us don't clean stuff we want to keep, what benefit is there of it not being deleted??

[rridgely]

Ok, the way a computer works is that when you delete something off your hard drive it tells the computer that that space is free. It dosent actually remove any information. It just tells the computer that the space is free so that it can later overwrite on that part of the hard drive. This goes for anything you remove including things you remove from the recycle bin. You can get programs that overwrite the files but that takes a long time and is pretty useless.

So while CCleaner is actually freeing up space its not deleting anything. So if your doing something bad on your pc the FBI can recover everything even though you deleted it(it dosent matter how you deleted it).

[Capman]

Very good description of the deleting process here by rridgely.